Belgium vs Brazil: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Belgium
87.7%
in 2025
Brazil
88.2%
in 2025
Belgium rank
50th
Brazil rank
47th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Belgium
- Brazil
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 88.2% against 87.7% in Belgium, a difference of 0.5%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Belgium ahead.
Belgium ranks 50th and Brazil ranks 47th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Belgium averaged higher in 39 and Brazil in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Belgium | Brazil | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 3.0% | 0.0% | 3.0% | Belgium |
| 1100s | 9.9% | 0.0% | 9.9% | Belgium |
| 1200s | 12.5% | 0.0% | 12.5% | Belgium |
| 1300s | 15.0% | 0.0% | 15.0% | Belgium |
| 1400s | 26.2% | 0.1% | 26.1% | Belgium |
| 1500s | 29.6% | 0.4% | 29.2% | Belgium |
| 1600s | 29.3% | 1.2% | 28.1% | Belgium |
| 1700s | 30.6% | 3.6% | 27.0% | Belgium |
| 1710s | 28.9% | 4.1% | 24.8% | Belgium |
| 1720s | 27.2% | 4.5% | 22.8% | Belgium |
| 1730s | 25.6% | 4.9% | 20.7% | Belgium |
| 1740s | 23.9% | 5.4% | 18.5% | Belgium |
| 1750s | 22.2% | 5.9% | 16.3% | Belgium |
| 1760s | 22.1% | 6.4% | 15.7% | Belgium |
| 1770s | 22.0% | 7.0% | 15.0% | Belgium |
| 1780s | 21.9% | 7.7% | 14.2% | Belgium |
| 1790s | 21.8% | 8.4% | 13.4% | Belgium |
| 1800s | 21.7% | 9.2% | 12.5% | Belgium |
| 1810s | 26.3% | 10.1% | 16.2% | Belgium |
| 1820s | 31.0% | 11.1% | 19.9% | Belgium |
| 1830s | 35.6% | 12.1% | 23.5% | Belgium |
| 1840s | 40.3% | 13.3% | 27.0% | Belgium |
| 1850s | 44.9% | 14.6% | 30.4% | Belgium |
| 1860s | 49.6% | 15.9% | 33.6% | Belgium |
| 1870s | 54.2% | 17.5% | 36.7% | Belgium |
| 1880s | 58.9% | 19.1% | 39.7% | Belgium |
| 1890s | 63.5% | 20.9% | 42.6% | Belgium |
| 1900s | 68.1% | 22.9% | 45.2% | Belgium |
| 1910s | 72.8% | 25.1% | 47.7% | Belgium |
| 1920s | 77.4% | 27.5% | 49.9% | Belgium |
| 1930s | 82.1% | 30.1% | 51.9% | Belgium |
| 1940s | 86.7% | 33.0% | 53.7% | Belgium |
| 1950s | 64.1% | 40.2% | 23.9% | Belgium |
| 1960s | 67.9% | 48.3% | 19.5% | Belgium |
| 1970s | 72.5% | 59.6% | 12.9% | Belgium |
| 1980s | 76.5% | 71.1% | 5.4% | Belgium |
| 1990s | 80.1% | 77.6% | 2.6% | Belgium |
| 2000s | 83.4% | 82.7% | 0.6% | Belgium |
| 2010s | 86.1% | 85.5% | 0.5% | Belgium |
| 2020s | 87.5% | 87.5% | 0.0% | Brazil |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Belgium or Brazil?
- Brazil, at 88.2% against 87.7% in Belgium as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Belgium and Brazil?
- 0.5%, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Belgium and Brazil?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Belgium and Brazil rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Belgium ranks 50th and Brazil ranks 47th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Do more people live in urban or rural areas?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modeled historical data.